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Album Reviews
Album Review: Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic (Western Vinyl)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 29 June 2009
Contrasting sounds fitted together so loosely shouldn’t sound this good. Here We Go Magic’s eponymous album mixes together multi-layered electronica, worldly acoustics and contemporary Afrobeat-inspired rhythms over and under a wide, echoing space – an echoing space that should, technically, give ‘Here We Go Magic’ an empty sort of laziness, but it doesn’t. Luke Temple, the man behind the name and the sound, has the voice of a vintage-tinged Win Butler. Sufjan Stevens is a fan; “[He has] one of the most beautiful [voices] in pop music”, he says of Temple, who released two albums prior to taking on this newly adopted alias. ‘Here We Go Magic’ is short and sweet – a modest exploration of sound that may not please a vast audience because of its many peculiar influences and the way that it sometimes extends itself into extreme experimental sounds, with the likes of the eerie and brash ‘Ghost List’ and the repetitive, hypnotic ‘I Just Want To See You Underwater’. There are more pleasing and accessible turns on the LP though, such as the bluesy ‘Everything’s Big’ and the warmly acoustic ‘Tunnelvision’. ‘Here We Go Magic’ is a little dark for the summer, but beautiful nonetheless – and the project itself is a promising new turn from Temple. TW
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